Game Maker goes HTML5

Hey folks, check this out:

http://glog.yoyogames.com/?p=2976

Looks like YoYo Games are coming after us with their own HTML5 exporter! Interesting. Well, I say bring it on, it'll only get us working harder to make something better

Well they don't have a Linux GUI...yet another thing you could trump all the others with, given that the way Construct is done is far better than all the others.

Interesting, i am guessing this has been in development for a while also so i wonder if they plan on doing any more formats also. I guess as soon as the big HTML5 hype thing started a while back all the game development programs probably started making HTML5 exporters.

Sandy said in the comments:

[quote:2r7lgxkb]We started work on this less than two weeks ago

Interesting! That would be approximately one week after the Construct 2 public preview started

it probably really is in response to c2. Gamemaker has to know about us by now.

They don't stand a chance though. not to be mean, but this is scirra we're talking about...that would be like a bunch of kids making a fort in their backyard out of blankets and tree branches, so they could go up against NATO.

it probably really is in response to c2. Gamemaker has to know about us by now.

They don't stand a chance though. not to be mean, but this is scirra we're talking about...that would be like a bunch of kids making a fort in their backyard out of blankets and tree branches, so they could go up against NATO.

That reminds me, I need to study for my history test now :?

I have mixed feelings when it comes to html5.The games are slow and almost unplayable.I will stick to Macromedia flash if i want to create web browser games.Ive been playing around with game maker 8.0 pro now and i must say it's quite good.Game maker 8.0 pro also has the powerful GmOgre 3d plugin which i still need to see in CS.I love all these click&create progs ,they make life a little easier for creating small but fun games.

Both CS2 and GM has thier plus and minus points , So i cannot say which is better at the moment.Yes CS2 and CS are remarkable apps,But if you have both GM and CS then you can do so much more.

Im not a Pro Game Maker user,I think it's silly to compare two very different apps.And seeing the positive response i got on thier forum's about Construct . It's unfair to diss thier app.

Both CS2 and GM has thier plus and minus points , So i cannot say which is better at the moment.Yes CS2 and CS are remarkable apps,But if you have both GM and CS then you can do so much more.

Im not a Pro Game Maker user,I think it's silly to compare two very different apps.And seeing the positive response i got on thier forum's about Construct . It's unfair to diss thier app.

i was just having a little fun, and cheerleading for my winning team. also, although I haven't tried gm8, I owned gm7. I disagree with most of what you said. GM was extremely slow, and useless without scripting, and I also think they are not very different apps. They are meant to do the same thing. Just one is much better at it. I don't want to derail the thread. but just my 2 cents

They are two very different apps doing the same thing.I meant different in the way the events etc.. works.But im happy if both are using HTML5 ,That means that i get to have more fun in creating games on the two apps for my phone.It seems that every click&create program is moving towards HTML5 because that's just the way it is.

I will stick to CS for now.Only because it's so damn addictive and a joy to work with.

Cheering-on is cool and all, but I think it'd be wise to consider that until we have more users than them (and they have a lot of users), they're probably doing something better than us.

yeah. marketing:)

Well it looks like HTML5 is not the only format game maker can export to.You can also export your games to Psp,Ipod ,Android and the Ipad.But CS 2 will probably have those as well in the future?.I certainly hope so.

it is called game maker and has been for like a decade, i mean that alone is an unfair advantage.

Was what I searched for when I was trying to find a game maker, when I was younger.

I can't stop laughing. It can't be a coincidence, surely, with the time-frame they admitted themselves.

Honestly, I don't really care about Game Maker. I find the interface and how it does things unintuitive and the event system is almost useless without scripting.